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Congratulations, you've just met someone who legitimately likes JavaScript as a language, as well as its libraries. That's just never, ever a credible assertio
by aerovistae 11y ago
Congratulations, you've just met someone who legitimately likes JavaScript as a language, as well as its libraries.
That's just never, ever a credible assertion, "I've never met anyone who likes X"....then you must not talk to many people. There's a lot of people in the world and a lot of JS developers and PLENTY of them like it.
- marcus_holmes 11y agoSeconded. I really enjoy coding in JS, and don't mind the various hacks that have to happen for browser incompatability. I do, however, object to the massive amounts of dependency in the Nodejs ecosystem. It's as if no-one learned the lessons of DLL Hell. We already know that dependencies are bad, people!
- pekk 11y agoIf dependencies are bad, then it seems to follow that every project should reinvent all the wheels.
- recursive 11y agoNo. Reinventing wheels is also bad. Which one is worse depends on context.
- marcus_holmes 11y agonice ad absurdum ;) I don't have any objection to dependencies where they're necessary. But the node culture isn't "where necessary", it's "wherever some code might be vaguely useful". Left-pad is a classic example: this is a one-liner[1] so why the hell are we including it as a dependency? [1]: ((str,len)=>("0000000000"+str).slice(len*-1))("test",10)
- greggman 11y ago3rded, as a C++ programmer of many years it took a while but I now enjoy JavaScript quite a bit
- abecedarius 11y agoI like ES6 myself! Though ES5 rates as only tolerable to me; I hope the standards committee manages to phase out more of the cruft over time via some kind of 'use strict'.
- kelkes 11y agoAs a former C# coder i really like JS. ES6 is great.